> > Well for shits and giggles I downloaded the latest bsnes or hiagain and ran the > > purifier thing on a few games for a test. I was expecting the defaulted settings to > > at least slightly resemble what I remember my SNES looking like, but it was a major > > disappointment. The default video settings look like garbage and the video filters > it > > did have are complete crap. > > > > SNES in MESS with HLSL >> bsnes (hiagain) > > SNES will get better soon as every single bugs are gone on MESS. Yes MESS is better > than bsnes/higan because of the HLSL support.
At the current stage, I always suggest to keep two emulators for main systems. You first try MESS and you see if the game works. Otherwise, you use the system specific emulator (and possibly you report the issue on MameTesters or to the MESS forum).
on average MESS is pretty good, and if you have a HLSL capable video card it can really offer a great experience, but none of the dev denies that there are often specific games which do not work yet (or classes of games using a common feature, like the SNES games using the BS-X expansion or the SA-1 addon chip, which are currently not supported in MESS), so if you are specifically interested into those games MESS alone is not enough for you. as Haze says quite often, we aim to accuracy but emulating all the features needed by thousand of games for each system is not so easy as one might think. since we avoid game-specific hacks, this means that we end up with some games not working...
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